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We have purchased two vintage Grindmaster 500 series coffee grinders, which have been refurbished to factory specs in order to provide the best grind possible for all the coffee Barista Guy’s Coffee will provide to it’s growing customer base. This will fit our Vintage Coffee shop theme that is currently in planning. We will be on the lookout for one or two more grinders to complete our grinder inventory. The Grindmaster 500 series grinder has a full three pound coffee bean capacity with adjustable bag holder/stand for hands free operation. We have fully tested these grinders and they provide the perfect grind whether it is for espresso, automatic drip or french roast.

The Sonofresco 2.8LB table top commercial coffee roaster that will be used to supplement Barista Guy’s Coffee roasting business has arrived. Barista Guy’s Coffee will small batch roast many special single origin short or limited supply coffees using this roaster in order to minimize cost on these more expensive varietals and blends. The Sonofresco is based on the same fluidized bed hot air roasting roasting technology as the Sevitz based roasters used in the industry today. This roaster starts with 2.8LB’s of green coffee beans and yeilds a whopping 2.4LB’s net weight when complete. With a total daily capacity of 55-60LB’s of roasted coffee per day, Barista Guy’s will be able to handle any special requests from our customers when needed.

Beginning of the roast cycle

and 18 minutes later you see the finished product, ready to be packaged.

Completed Coffee Roast

This roaster provided a very nice Full City roast with it’s built in profile settings. As you can see our Alaskan Wilderness Blend turned out perfect.

Alaskan Wilderness Full City Roast

Fresh Coffee...Fast

Here at Barista Guy’s Coffee, we believe in delivering the freshest, most vibrant and aromatic coffees available anywhere. You will find many varietal coffees from different regions of the world, roasted fresh when you order it, not before. Barista Guy’s Coffee is a small batch micro-roaster, so we constantly acquire new bean stock on a rotational basis, offering you many choices throughout the year. We give you, the customer, a better choice in coffee. Feel free to leave us comments or feedback about our website. We would love to hear from you as this helps us to improve our service. Check out our on-line store, where you will find single origin, espresso, flavored, blended, decaf and green coffee beans. We also offer gifts and gift baskets for your enjoyment.

As beverages go coffee in it’s present form has only been around for about six centuries, while tea and wine go back several thousand years. The tradition of flavoring and sweetening coffee goes back to the era when coffee was first drunk in the Middle East and Europe, for instance Cafe au Vin, a recipe of which dared to blend port wine and french roast coffee was one of the ways in which coffee was first savored. At the time, the only sweetener used was Cardamon. Cardamon comes from the seeds of a ginger-like plant which imparts it’s sweet, spicy flavor to the coffee. The original Arabic word for coffee was in fact the same word used for wine ” Qahwah”. Cafe au Vin brings out the fruity complexity of the coffee and the coffee adds a full bodied yet silken texture to the amazing taste.

In Vienna, coffee’s first stop in Europe, shopkeepers served complex coffee drinks which included steamed milk, whipped cream, cinnamon, vanilla, and chocolate. Which gives us the present day incarnations of our espresso based drinks.

A coffee bean is the seed of the coffee plant (the pit inside the red or purple fruit). The fruits, coffee cherries or coffee berries, most commonly contain two stones with their flat sides together. Coffee beans consist mostly of endosperm that contains 0.8 – 2.5 % caffeine, which is one of the main reasons the plants are cultivated. As coffee is one of the world’s most widely consumed beverages, coffee beans are a major cash crop, and an important export product for some countries.

Species of coffee plant include Coffea arabica, Coffea benghalensis, Coffea canephora, Coffea congensis, Coffea excelsa, Coffea gallienii, Coffea bonnieri, Coffea mogeneti, Coffea liberica, and Coffea stenophylla. The seeds of different species produce coffee with slightly different characteristics.

Coffea arabica accounts for about 75% of the world’s coffee trade, while Coffea canephora (syn. Coffea robusta) is cultivated where Coffea arabica does not thrive, and Coffea liberica and Coffea excelsa are grown in limited areas across the globe. In a crop of coffee, a small percentage of cherries contain a single bean, instead of the usual two. This is called a peaberry.